China 1839 1997

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781471839191

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Access to History: China 1839-1997 by Michael Lynch Pdf

Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History is the most popular, trusted and wide-ranging series for A-level History students. This title: - Supports the content and assessment requirements of the 2015 A-level History specifications - Contains authoritative and engaging content - Includes thought-provoking key debates that examine the opposing views and approaches of historians - Provides exam-style questions and guidance for each relevant specification to help students understand how to apply what they have learnt This title is suitable for a variety of courses including: - AQA: The Transformation of China, 1937-1997 - Edexcel: Mao's China, 1949-76

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Hodder Education Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : China
ISBN : 1471839184

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China, 1839-1997 by Michael Lynch Pdf

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History is the most popular, trusted and wide-ranging series for A-level History students. This title: - Supports the content and assessment requirements of the 2015 A-level History specifications - Contains authoritative and engaging content - Includes thought-provoking key debates that examine the opposing views and approaches of historians - Provides exam-style questions and guidance for each relevant specification to help students understand how to apply what they have learnt This title is suitable for a variety of courses including: - AQA: The Transformation of China, 1937-1997 - Edexcel: Mao's China, 1949-76

Author : Frederic Wakeman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520212398

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Strangers at the Gate by Frederic Wakeman Pdf

First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion--one of the most calamitous events in Chinese history. The book explores the various factors that led to the progression of rebellion and the inevitability of revolution.

Author : June Grasso,Jay P. Corrin,Michael Kort
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317236634

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Modernization and Revolution in China by June Grasso,Jay P. Corrin,Michael Kort Pdf

Extensively revised and fully updated in this fifth edition, this popular textbook conveys the drama of China's struggle to modernize against the backdrop of a proud and difficult history. It features new analysis of the issues facing China’s fifth generation of leaders, including the current economic climate, China's relations with its neighbors and the United States, the latest Tibetan crisis, and the election of Xi Jinping. Incorporating new analytical summaries in each chapter and updated suggested readings, this new edition covers: The breakdown of imperial China in the face of Japanese and Western encroachments The early struggles between the ideologies and armies of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong China's bitter and costly war with Japan The Chinese Communist Party’s successes during the 1950s Mao Zedong’s turbulent and tragic Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution Deng Xiaoping’s far-reaching reforms that resulted in the dismantling of socialism and China’s dramatic economic growth The triumphant hosting of the 2008 summer Olympics and China’s emergence as a world power. Spanning the years from China's defeat in the Opium Wars to its current status as a potential superpower, the fifth edition of Modernization and Revolution in China is essential reading for courses on Modern Chinese History, Chinese Politics and Modern East Asia.

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472853127

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The Chinese Civil War by Michael Lynch Pdf

In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. In this illustrated history, bestselling historian Dr Michael Lynch examines how the long struggle between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists exploded into an intense, brutal and ruthlessly fought civil war. Delving into the political background and complex ramifications of the conflict, he assesses Mao and Chiang's millions-strong armies, their strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that won and lost China. By 1949 the Nationalist government was defeated and in exile in Taiwan, and the new People's Republic of China was ready to emerge as a major Cold War power. Updated and revised for the new edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and its significant repercussions, the issues around which remain unresolved today.

Author : Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520222369

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Opium Regimes by Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Pdf

Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.

Author : Susan Mann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804727449

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Precious Records by Susan Mann Pdf

Most analyses of gender in High Qing times have focused on literature and on the writings of the elite; this book broadens the scope of inquiry to include women's work in the farm household, courtesan entertainment, and women's participation in ritual observances and religion. In dealing with literature, it shows how women's poetry can serve the historian as well as the literary critic, drawing on one of the first anthologies of women's writing compiled by a woman to examine not only literary sensibilities and intimate emotions, but also political judgments, moral values, and social relations.

Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526781735

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China Station by Mark Felton Pdf

The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842. This classic example of Imperial intervention saw the establishment of Hong Kong and Shanghai as key trading centres. The Second Opium War and the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions saw the advancement of British influence despite determined but unsuccessful efforts by the Chinese to loosen the grip of Western domination. The Royal Navys might ensured that, by gunboat diplomacy, trading rights and new posts were established and great fortunes made.But in the 1940s the British grossly underestimated Japanese military might and intentions with disastrous results. After the Second World War the British returned to find that the Americans had supplanted them. The Communists victory in the Civil War sealed British and Western fates and, while Hong Kong remained under British control until 1997, the end of British rule was almost inevitable. But the handover was a masterly piece of pragmatic capitalism and the former Colony remains an economic powerhouse with strong British influence.

Author : Michael D. Swaine,Sara A. Daly,Peter W. Greenwood
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833048301

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Interpreting China's Grand Strategy by Michael D. Swaine,Sara A. Daly,Peter W. Greenwood Pdf

China's continuing rapid economic growth and expanding involvement in global affairs pose major implications for the power structure of the international system. To more accurately and fully assess the significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community, it is necessary to gain a more complete understanding of Chinese security thought and behavior. This study addresses such questions as: What are China's most fundamental national security objectives? How has the Chinese state employed force and diplomacy in the pursuit of these objectives over the centuries? What security strategy does China pursue today and how will it evolve in the future? The study asserts that Chinese history, the behavior of earlier rising powers, and the basic structure and logic of international power relations all suggest that, although a strong China will likely become more assertive globally, this possibility is unlikely to emerge before 2015-2020 at the earliest. To handle this situation, the study argues that the United States should adopt a policy of realistic engagement with China that combines efforts to pursue cooperation whenever possible; to prevent, if necessary, the acquisition by China of capabilities that would threaten America's core national security interests; and to remain prepared to cope with the consequences of a more assertive China.

Author : Jack Beeching
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : China
ISBN : 0156170949

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The Chinese Opium Wars by Jack Beeching Pdf

An enlightening account of a notorious period in nineteenth-century imperialism, when an effort by the Chinese government to stamp out the country's profitable opium trade resulted in a series of conflicts known as the Opium Wars. Index; illustrations and map.

Author : Yung Leonard Chow
Publisher : Xlibris Us
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543418090

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A Timeline History of Recent China (1839-1976) by Yung Leonard Chow Pdf

The several timelines and short discussions in each page in this book make it easy for one to glance over and detect the cause-and-effects between successive events in recent China, that is: in the turbulent years from Opium War to Deng Xiao-Ping. An observation is: China has been deteriorating by itself for 40 years before the Opium war with Britain in 1839; then it took another 137 years including two internal revolutions, several more wars against external aggressors (especially the newly industrialized Japan), plus a devastating cultural revolution - before China could regain its footing and rejoined the world as equals. The politics in foreign countries relating to events in China are pointed out.

Author : Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478601

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China's Gilded Age by Yuen Yuen Ang Pdf

Unbundles corruption into different types, examining corruption as access money in China through a comparative-historical lens.

Author : Haijian Mao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107069879

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The Qing Empire and the Opium War by Haijian Mao Pdf

A comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.

Author : Gideon Nye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : British
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009675752

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The Morning of My Life in China by Gideon Nye Pdf

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781471838163

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Access to History: Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia 1917-64 for AQA Fifth Edition by Michael Lynch Pdf

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History is the most popular, trusted and wide-ranging series for A-level History students. This title: - Supports the content and assessment requirements of the 2015 A-level History specifications - Contains authoritative and engaging content - Includes thought-provoking key debates that examine the opposing views and approaches of historians - Provides exam-style questions and guidance for each relevant specification to help students understand how to apply what they have learnt This title is suitable for a variety of courses including: - AQA: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-1953